intershow

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verb

To show mutually; to show among or between two or more people.

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Meanings

verbintershow (third-person singular simple present intershows, present participle intershowing, simple past and past participle intershowed)

present singular third person intershows · participle present intershowing · participle past intershowed · past intershowed

  1. rareTo show mutually; to show among or between two or more people.

    it was to all beholders a singular pleasure to observe the love, the joy, and blandishments, each endeavored to enter-shew [translating entrefaisoyent] one another.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    1 more example

    Master Lenehan at this made return that he had heard of those nefarious deeds and how, as he heard hereof counted, he had besmirched the lily virtue of a confiding female which was corruption of minors and they all intershowed it too, waxing merry and toasting to his fathership.

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Origin

From inter- + show.

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APA

intershow. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intershow

MLA

“intershow.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intershow. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “intershow,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intershow.

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